diff --git a/commafeed-server/src/main/resources/application.properties b/commafeed-server/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 433cb60d..940d6785 100644
--- a/commafeed-server/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/commafeed-server/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ quarkus.native.additional-build-args=-H:PageSize=65536
 %test.commafeed.http-client.block-local-addresses=false
 %test.commafeed.database.cleanup.entries-max-age=0
 %test.commafeed.feed-refresh.force-refresh-cooldown-duration=1m
-
+## GitHub actions runners are very slow, we need to increase this timeout to avoid intermittent test failures
+%test.commafeed.feed-refresh.filtering-expression-evaluation-timeout=1s
 
 # prod profile overrides
 %prod.quarkus.datasource.jdbc.url=jdbc:h2:./data/db;DEFRAG_ALWAYS=TRUE